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Re: [TSL] L-o-n-g voyage
Kathy <lenerz@att.net> on 03/03/2010

Marj Kohli wrote:
> One think I notice in the NY Times is that many of the vessels were 
> reporting very foggy weather -- so much so that some were several days 
> in the bay waiting for the fog to lift. I also see ships arriving a few 
> weeks before the Stanislaus reporting heavy gales. 
> 
> It is possible that the weather played a big part in the length of the 
> voyage.

Thanks for looking into this. It's been a while since I gathered all the 
data I presented, so I had forgotten that I had also collected comments 
about the voyage. There certainly were a lot of reports about heavy gales.

What I'm still wondering is whether that was typical or atypical for the 
season, why Antwerp ships took longer to cross the ocean than those 
departing from other ports, and why one ship that left on the same day 
as another from the same port could take 2 1/2 weeks longer in crossing. 
Presumably they encountered the same weather phenomena.

Thanks for your ideas,
Kathy


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